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Hungary: ex-minister guilty of 1956 war crimes - 0 Comments

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary's former communist-era interior minister Bela Biszku was sentenced on Tuesday to five years and six months in prison for war crimes related to reprisals against civilians after the anti-Soviet revolution of 1956.

Biszku, the first high-ranking communist official to be tried since Hungary's return to democracy in 1990, was also found guilty by a Budapest court of other charges, including denying crimes committed by the communist regime — which, like denying the Holocaust, is illegal in Hungary.